Metal filing device.



PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

R MEIER & W H FLOYD, JR METAL FILING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 24 1905 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

Vi ,5 u 45' W far/2w ggzfm ase 4 /74 21 ew/w No. 805,085. PATENTBD NOV. 21, 1905. R. MEIER & W. H. FLOYD, J11.

METAL FILING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION rum) JAN. 24. 1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

\ \HHUIIIHHIHI/H/ \numunmm//1;.

INDEX WITNESSES k IHU6H'T'0P8 By LAM i' wy. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RUDOLPH MEIER AND WILLIAM H. FLOYD, JR, OF ST. JOSEPH,

MISSOURI. 1

METAL FILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed January 24, 1905. Serial No. 242,473.

WILLIAM H. FLOYD, J r., citizens of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Filing Devices; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object sought by us in this invention is to provide asubstitute for the usual method of caring for and handling the large number of maps of various description necessarily kept in the office of county and city engineers in court-houses and city halls, railroad and other public and private offices, greatly reduce the expense incident to wear and tear and consequent cost of replacing the maps, economize time usually consumed in searching for the desired map, and aflord a convenient and safe housing for the maps when not in use.

We attain our object by means of hookstrips rigidly attached to a main and extension roof and guide-strips adapted to travel therein and by which the maps are carried back and forth for examination, as hereinafter fully described, and by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which.

Figure 1 is a perspective of the invention, showing a case with extension roof, the front and one end of the case broken away, and a map drawn out under the extensionroof to the position occupied while being examined. Fig. 2 is also a perspective view, showing the device as seen from the end opposite that shown in Fig. 1, the door swung open, and the front of the case partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a detail showing hook-strips fastened to a section of ceiling, guide-strips engaging with said hook-strips, and maps carried by said guide-strips. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of said strips, showing a slot ina guide-strip and also a brad in a slot retaining a map in position. Fig. 5 is a detail elevation of a stop-piece held in place on the end of the extension-roof, a slot therein, and the screw and button operating in said slot; and Fig. 6 is a cross-section of said stoppiece with slot, screw, and button therein.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

In the views, A represents a case, and A an extensionroof, this extension being of the same size as the roof A of the case.

B B are hook-strips of zinc or any suitable material. These hooks are rigidly attached by screws or rivets b b to the ceiling or roof of the case and to the extension. Engaging with the hook ends of these strips are guidestrips 0 C, also of zinc or any other suitable material. These guide-strips at their lower ends are bent upward and a ain downward, as illustrated in Fig. 3, suc bend in each forming a cap D, within which the upper edge of a map F may be inserted and held by means of brads d (11, inserted through slots d (1. Each of said hook-strips extend from end to end of the main and extension roof. The guide-strips are adapted to travel in said hook-strips. They are only half the length. of the hook-strips. Owing to the thinness of the metal hook and guide-strips and the close position they can occupy side by side, a case or other inclosure three or four feet deep will hold a large number of supporting-strips and maps. These cases are made of any width, depth, and height, according to the size and number of maps likely to be used therein. The case prop er should be the width of the widest map to be hung therein. l/Vhen the maps are not in use, they may be shut up in the case by means of a door E. This door when open, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, will be on a line vertically at the rear of the hook and guide strips and of the maps carried thereby that may be drawn out of the case proper under the extension-roof for examination. This door may be provided on the inside with indices, to which reference may be had in order to get the desired map.

Toprevent the guide-strips and their maps being run out too far, a flange stop-piece H is held in place on the end of the extensionroof by means of a screw it and button 72,. To provide for changing or removing maps from the case, each of said screws operates through a slot I in said stop-piece. When v the buttons are turned into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, said stoppiece is readily removed and one or more maps Withdrawn or inserted.

What We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a metal filing device the combination with a supporting-roof, of a plurality of hookstrips rigidly attached parallel with each other to said roof, a corresponding plurality of guide-strips running parallel with each other having a length one-half that of the hook-strips and adapted to travel therein, cap ends thereof provided with slots for receiving brads by which the edges of maps or drawings may be retained within said caps, a stop-piece at the extension ends of the hookstrips to prevent the escape of the guidestrips therefrom and screws and buttons adapted to operate in slots in the stop-piece to hold said piece in position but permit its removal and allow maps or drawings to be of maps or other sheets within said bent ends,

a stop-piece provided with slots and screws and buttons adapted to operate in said slots,

substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

RUDOLPH MEIER; INILLIAM H. FLOYD, JR.

Witnesses:

LEVI N. MILLER, EARL FAIRBANK. 

